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National Transport Commission
Principal Policy Adviser
Job type: Full-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Salary: $126,500 to $169,536
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: NTC 1043
Applications close: Thursday, 12 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.ntc.gov.au
The job:
- Lead policy and legislative development projects to propose national reforms aimed at improving land transport regulations.
- Lead and support consultation and collaboration on proposed reforms with affected stakeholders, subject matter experts, and relevant government and industry stakeholders and working groups to identify sound policy options and solutions.
- Contribute expertise to the development, implementation and monitoring of other projects in the NTC work program.
- Facilitate online collaboration and run effective meetings/workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead research on specific transport issues, analyse data and prepare relevant reports.
- Coordinate the preparation of regulatory impact statements/impact analyses and assist in analysing the impacts of proposed reforms.
- Provide high-quality advice and support to senior management in relation policy development and implementation.
- May be required to lead and manage the work of staff and contractors.
Position contact: Emma Grant, Hudson
Telephone: 0438 100 625.
Australian Digital Health Agency
Senior Officer Integrity Operations
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,456 to $106,563
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 0731_11/24
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Sunday, 15 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au
The job: As an integral part of our team, you’ll infuse your role with expertise and strategic thinking. Your passion for integrity and accountability will drive impactful results across the agency. We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Extensive knowledge of legislative requirements related to fraud and corruption, public interest disclosures, Freedom of Information, conflict of interest, and gifts and benefits management.
- Practical management experience in one or more of the key activities required by the position.
- Proven experience in government investigations, including relevant qualifications.
- High-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in policy and procedure development and maintenance (desired).
- Independence, sound decision-making, and judgment in providing specialist advice.
- Initiative and proactiveness in engaging with internal and external stakeholders to address complex problem-solving and issues management.
- An ability to support the development and facilitation of educational and communication initiatives to embed a pro-integrity culture across the agency.
Supported by a manager who excels in building high-performing, cohesive, and inclusive teams, you will thrive in an environment where best practices and award-winning solutions are the norm. You’ll receive feedback, coaching, mentoring, and formal development opportunities to help you succeed and grow.
Position contact: Cass Hilton-Beck
Email: [email protected].
Australian Digital Health Agency
Senior Workforce Capability Partner
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $94,456 to $106,563
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 0718_11/24
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Sunday, 15 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au
The job: As an integral part of our team, you’ll bring a wealth of experience and strategic thinking to the role. Your expertise and enthusiasm will help us craft innovative solutions and drive impactful results across the agency. We would also love to see you demonstrate:
- A proven track record as an established HR professional with relevant skills in workforce strategy, planning, transformation, organisational design, or learning strategy.
- Strategic leadership capabilities to guide a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative team.
- A reputation for building trusted relationships by understanding work and needs, removing barriers, providing feedback, and empowering excellence.
- A collaborative mindset, actively building partnerships across the agency to translate business priorities into action, aligning with broader APS initiatives.
- Strong critical-thinking and communication skills to consistently bring fresh ideas and influence the agency’s direction.
- Expertise in research, data, and analysis to inform initiatives, identify risks and opportunities, and provide valuable advice and recommendations.
- Exceptional organisational skills to make quick, evidence-based decisions, manage time effectively, and keep multiple projects on track.
- A self-aware and growth-oriented approach, continuously seeking feedback and guidance, researching the latest trends, and exploring better ways of doing things.
Supported by a manager who excels in building high-performing, cohesive, and inclusive teams, you will thrive in an environment where best practice and award-winning solutions are the norm. You’ll receive feedback, coaching, mentoring, and formal development opportunities to help you succeed and grow.
Position contact: Kath Hume
Email: [email protected].
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)
Director, National Criminal Intelligence System Capability Management Team
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $141,624 to $159,567
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 5724_11/24_IIS
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Monday, 16 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.acic.gov.au
The job:
- Providing leadership and management to a team with key areas of focus, including: cross-agency governance and business planning, policy management, partner agency agreements, communications, performance evaluation, integrity and audit and assurance reporting.
- Accountability for managing and leading a team, including identifying and escalating areas where there are emerging gaps, risks and issues that may impact the achievement of NCIS outputs, outcomes and benefits.
- Driving the national agenda on NCIS information and intelligence sharing for law enforcement, and improving enhancement of cross-agency information sharing.
- Promoting innovation, participation and capability evolution nationally.
- Collaborating with all partner agencies on improvements to the national service.
- Approving and promoting adoption of national information-sharing policies and standards.
- Preparing specialist advice to NCIS governance committees, the national capability committees and other committees and forums as required.
- Providing strategic advice on policy changes necessary to support future capability.
- Effectively communicating and shaping national consideration of critical issues impacting on the NCIS national service design and operations.
- Collaborating with information-sharing capability managers across jurisdictions and domains to build, maintain and sustain commitment and involvement of partners to the participation in NCIS.
- Providing strategic advice to continuously improve the NCIS capability, including designing the arrangements for ongoing support for the governance framework and governance operations.
- Ensuring all capability management office reporting for NCIS is high quality and timely, and addresses stakeholder concerns.
- Building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior stakeholders, to assist the smooth and effective functioning of the NCIS program.
- Ensuring development of new project proposals meets the objectives of NCIS.
Position contact: Petula
Telephone: (02) 6268 7182.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
APS5 Data Analysts
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $83,921 to $89,887
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: #160_12/24
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Monday, 16 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.aihw.gov.au
The job: The Deputy CEO Group consists of five units: Centrelink Strategies, Flagship Reporting, Suicide & Self-harm Monitoring, and the recently created Mental Health Analytics and Reporting Service (MHARS) and Mental Health Information & Evidence Refinement & Validation (MHINERVA). The mental health work program is undertaken by two discrete but closely linked mental health units.
We are seeking to fill multiple APS 5 Data Analyst roles across the two mental health units at the Deputy CEO Group.
The MHINERVA Unit is responsible for the AIHW’s work program to improve the broader mental health evidence base (except work on perinatal mental health). Major deliverables for the unit include delivery of key performance indicators and the data development work program under the national agreement; establishment of an enduring mental health-linked data asset; and management of the Mental Health Services Activity Monitoring System and the National Mental Health Service Planning Framework. MHINERVA is also the custodian of the national mental health community, residential and expenditure data collections.
The MHARS Unit leads AIHW’s mental health analysis and reporting. Major deliverables for the unit include the Mental Health Online Report (MHOR) website, which provides the most up-to-date information about the activity and characteristics of Australia’s mental health-related services, their usage and the resources required to run them. MHARS is also the custodian of the national mental health outcomes, experience, and safety data collections.
Position contact: Shona Curvers
Telephone: (02) 6249 4860.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC)
Director, National Criminal Intelligence System Partner Adoption and Experience Team
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $141,624 to $159,567
Classification: Executive Level 2
Position number: 5704_11/24_IIS
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Monday, 16 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.acic.gov.au
The job:
- Providing leadership and management to a team delivering multi-jurisdictional projects, including supporting coordination of projects, strategic planning, governance functions and human resource management.
- Accountability for managing and leading a team of project managers, including identifying and escalating areas where there are emerging gaps, risks and issues that may impact the achievement of NCIS outputs, outcomes and benefits.
- Accountability for delivering structured processes and tools to support partner engagement and project delivery.
- Preparing executive briefs and reports, including submissions for executive and governance consideration.
- Building and sustaining national stakeholder engagement, including providing the central coordination point for external engagement and management oversight of national deployment projects.
- Supporting the collaboration of work across NCIS delivery lines to understand dependencies to ensure these are identified for management by the NCIS program.
- Providing guidance, coordination of internal reviews and support to partners on investment proposals, delivery of projects and governance processes.
- Supporting business transformation and delivery of change practices for the adoption of the NCIS capability nationally.
- Working closely with executive partners to manage and escalate emerging partner risks and issues.
- Ensuring external agency partners are supported and enabled to deliver the NCIS Tranche 2 outcomes.
- Providing assurance on submitted partner project artefacts.
Position contact: Petula
Telephone: (02) 6268 7182.
Australian Research Council
Assistant Director – ASA and Property
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra Airport, ACT
Salary: $115,030 to $123,873
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: ARC24-0202
Security clearance: Negative Vetting 1
Applications close: Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.arc.gov.au
The job:
- Implementing and managing internal security policies and procedures.
- Preparing PSPF-compliant briefs, plans, awareness materials and other artifacts.
- In collaboration with the Information Technology Security Adviser (ITSA), drafting the annual PSPF maturity assessment for presentation and approval by the accountable authority.
- In collaboration with the ITSA, developing an annual work plan to lift the ARC’s security and raise the department’s PSPF compliance response. This includes undertaking activities to implement the work plan.
- Delivering security briefings for staff conducting international travel, and other security briefings as required.
- Managing security incidents and conducting, facilitating or assisting with investigations.
- Managing staff and contractors to deliver security services across the department.
- Overseeing the facilities management function to ensure routine and unscheduled maintenance and capital upgrade works are conducted safely and effectively, within budget to the required standard, and contracts are established and managed in accordance with relevant procurement guidelines.
- Managing new and existing property leasing arrangements, working with our outsourced property services provider.
- Maintaining the ARC property portfolio infrastructure.
- Coordinating emergency planning and response services under WHS Regulation 2011.
- Developing reports, policies, briefing papers and correspondence in line with requirements, and in consultation with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
Position contact: Bobby Almasi
Telephone: (02) 6206 7226.
Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (PWSS)
Digital Communications and Media Officer
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $94,434 to $123,043
Classification: APS Level 6
Position number: 24_06
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
Agency website: http://www.pwss.gov.au
The job:
- Support a small team to achieve high-quality outcomes and drive continuous improvement across all communications activities.
- Develop and implement strategic digital communication and media plans, including innovative web strategies, content and associated products.
- Manage projects, contracts and procurement using Commonwealth best practices.
- Collaborate positively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure products meet audience needs.
- Monitor and evaluate communication effectiveness via website analytics, stakeholder feedback, and other tools.
- Prepare clear and timely presentations, using data from projects, analytics and feedback, for various audiences.
- Lead the development and management of a website refresh and other digital content, including intranet and website enhancement for PWSS, IPSC and the PWSS Academy.
- Strengthen PWSS brand management through consistent and impactful messaging and consistent use of brand.
- Perform other duties as required to support the PWSS’s objectives.
Position contact: Kathleen Sweetapple
Telephone: (02) 6277 9879.
Geoscience Australia
Infrastructure Platform Manager
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Symonston, ACT
Salary: $113,361 to $128,149
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 18364
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.ga.gov.au
The job:
- Oversee the operational support of Digital Earth Australia’s digital platforms, with a strong presence in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Provide strategic direction, guidance, and leadership to a multidisciplinary engineering team.
- Architect and deploy cloud solutions for large-scale geospatial data storage and processing, ensuring infrastructure supports DEA’s high-performance and availability requirements.
- Develop and maintain data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and archiving large Earth-observation datasets, including those from satellite sources such as Landsat and Sentinel.
- Implement best practices in security and compliance, ensuring that DEA’s cloud infrastructure meets regulatory and operational standards for data protection and privacy.
- Monitor cloud resource usage, optimise configurations, and implement cost-saving strategies to maximise DEA’s cloud budget without compromising performance.
- Work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and Earth-observation experts to support DEA’s data and analytics goals, providing infrastructure solutions that align with their technical needs.
- Consult with internal and external stakeholders to ensure positive, customer-focused outcomes.
- Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices, methodologies, and tools.
- Mentor team members, manage resources, and champion a positive, high-performance culture.
- Implement plans for the work area, including setting tasks and priorities, managing workflow and allocating resources.
- Contribute to the identification and implementation of systems improvement initiatives.
- Champion best practices and foster a culture of collaboration and excellence, and ensure governance standards are maintained.
Position contact: Arek Drozda
Telephone: (02) 6249 9739.
Austrade
Solution Architect
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Brisbane, QLD; Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW
Salary: $112,868 to $126,961
Classification: Executive Level 1
Position number: 5121_11/24
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.austrade.gov.au
The job:
- Work with stakeholders in an agile environment to architect solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with technology strategy.
- Coordinate the development of agreed solution architectures across multiple business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Provide advice on technical aspects of solution development and ensure relevant technical strategies, policies, patterns and standards are applied.
- Produce technical plans, blueprints, and roadmaps to articulate the business and technical benefits of proposed solutions.
- Work with enterprise architects to ensure architectural quality and compliance with agency governance.
Position contact: Dean Fitzgibbon
Telephone: (02) 6201 7345.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Intelligence Officer
Job type: Full-time, Ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $93,591 to $129,063
Classification: APS Level 4
Security clearance: Baseline
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.asis.gov.au
Job description: To succeed as an Intelligence Officer, you will need to demonstrate superior interpersonal and liaison skills to build strong relationships with people. You will have presence and impact, with a proven ability to interact effectively with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds, and an interest in working overseas.
Intelligence Officers must be curious, quick-thinking and highly self-motivated, with excellent written communication skills, high levels of maturity, excellent judgment and the ability to assess risk.
As Intelligence Officers operate in difficult and high-pressure environments, you will also need to demonstrate the highest level of personal integrity and professionalism.
Agency recruitment site: https://www.asis.gov.au/Careers/Current-Vacancies
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Australian Public Service Commission
Temporary Employment Opportunity
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Non-ongoing
Various locations: ACT, NSW, QLD, NT, WA, SA, TAS, VIC
Salary: $52,000 to $162,885
Classification: APS Level 1; APS Level 2; APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: 24_28
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.apsc.gov.au
Duties: The vacancy eligibility. The Australian Public Service Commission (the APSC) seeks to attract, develop and retain diverse, enthusiastic and high-performing employees. To help us in achieving this, we maintain a temporary employment register of interested applicants that the APSC can use to fill a variety of roles across various classifications and business areas. The positions may be full time, part time or casual depending on individual team needs.
To help us better match you with a role that suits your employment preferences, interests and skills, we want to know more about you and the work that you are interested in, and we will collect this information via the application form.
If there is a suitable opportunity that matches your skills and experience, you may be contacted regarding your application. Submitting an application does not guarantee employment with the APSC.
The register may be utilised to access candidates to fill roles at short notice, such as advisers on taskforces relating to emerging government priorities, policy roles, governance and corporate roles, management and leadership positions and administrative support, including executive assistants.
Position contact: People Team
Telephone: (02) 6202 3834.
Federal Court of Australia
Legal Case Manager
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing
Location: Melbourne, VIC
Salary: $80,341 to $87,572
Classification: APS Level 5
Position number: 0891-11-24
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au
The job: The Legal Case Manager works closely with lawyers in providing support to judicial registrars. Judicial registrars exercise judicial and statutory functions delegated by judges or conferred by the rules of the Federal Court and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) (general federal law).
Broadly, the primary areas of registrar work for which support is required are:
- Mediation and case management support. This involves mediation and case management work done by registrars in support of matters within judges’ dockets.
- Registrar court work. This work involves the running of corporations (FCA) and bankruptcy (FCA and FCFCOA) lists, issuing of summonses for examination, return of documents in examinations and public examinations; return of subpoena lists and hearings (FCA); Small Claims list (FCFCOA) and Adverse Action Lists (FCFCOA and FCA); and special fixture interlocutory hearings.
- Other registrar work. This work includes the determination of costs (long-form bills of costs estimates, confidential conferences, taxation of costs, remuneration assessments), duty work, eCourtroom substituted service applications, and other work (pro bono, tribunal support, external liaison).
- Legal Case Managers will also assist with national tasks.
Position contact: Sophie Bird
Telephone: (03) 8638 6889.
Attorney-General’s Department
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Various
IGIS Talent and Section (26) Transfer Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Ongoing; Non-ongoing
Location: Canberra, ACT
Salary: $52,353 to $155,380
Classification: APS Level 1; APS Level 2; APS Level 3; APS Level 4; APS Level 5; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1; Executive Level 2
Position number: 0318/23
Security clearance: Positive Vetting level
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://www.igis.gov.au
Duties: At the IGIS, we are always looking for talented, robust and motivated people to join our team. We have a range of employment options for a career in our office, including those at the APS 1-6 level, Executive level and temporary employment arrangements.
The IGIS Talent Register is a way to express your interest in joining our office. Applications to the Talent Register will remain active for 12 months for consideration.
When appropriate vacancies are identified, we will use this talent register to fill critical gaps in our workforce, from the APS 1 to Executive Level 2.
We may fill vacancies in both the corporate and operational streams, including, but not limited to:
- Administration
- Accounting and finance
- Audit
- Complaints
- Corporate support
- Governance
- Human resources
- Information, communications and technology
- Intelligence oversight
- Legal
- Security.
Position contact: OIGIS HR
Telephone: (02) 6141 4490.
Department of the House of Representatives
Committee Office
Temporary Employment Register
Job type: Full-time; Part-time, Non-ongoing
Location: Capital Hill, ACT
Salary: $76,725 to $129,950
Classification: APS Level 4; APS Level 6; Executive Level 1
Position number: Several
Security clearance: As required
Applications close: Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
Agency website: https://candidate.aurion.cloud/dohr/production
Duties: The Committee Office is looking for Researchers, Senior Researchers and Inquiry Secretaries to support parliamentary committees in examining policy and legislation. They also scrutinise the executive government, through the provision of procedural, research, analytical, drafting and administrative support.
About the roles:
The Office Manager (PSL4) will be responsible for providing administrative assistance and office support to a small secretariat team comprising a Committee Secretary, Inquiry Secretaries and research staff. The Office Manager processes committee and inquiry documents, maintains secretariat records, arranges travel and committee bookings, and collects statistical information.
Researchers (PSL4) and Senior Researchers (PSL6) work within a secretariat group, providing research, reports and administrative support to a parliamentary committee or committees. They work under the direction of the Committee Secretary and one or more Inquiry Secretaries.
An Inquiry Secretary (EB1) is a senior officer in a secretariat headed by a Committee Secretary, providing research, advisory, report-writing and administrative support to one or more parliamentary committees. The Inquiry Secretary supports the Committee Secretary in providing advice to committee chairs and members regarding parliamentary practice and procedure, and in leading and developing junior secretariat staff.
All roles may require domestic travel to support the committee.
Position contact: Senior Clerk of Committees
Telephone: (02) 6277 4776.
